I finished a long comics series called Lucifer today that Kevin had recommended. It’s a spin-off of comics series The Sandman, which you may have seen lying around the shelves of various used-to-be-depressed girls and/or Will Hines over the years. Lucifer was very different than The Sandman, although similar in that lots of the stories had British characters casually explaining really obscure rituals to each other as they turn into trolls. “Oh this necklace? This is a POTLATCH. That’s a sort of gift that once received, is very hard to give up. Ask the old tree Yggrisil about those — he’ll have quite a tale to tell you. Just [...]
Here’s what you do: go download Firefox 3, then open a browser window and type “about:robots” and hit enter. You will see this:
That’s fun. Can someone tell me what the references are? I get the I, Robot one (”robots may not injure a human being…”) and the Battlestar Galactica one (”and they have a plan.”)
Surfing for the answers (which I’ve found) led me to the Robot Hall of Fame, which includes both real and ficitonal robots. This is a good time, people!
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